Do you have a blog for your hotel, lodge, B&B?
A blog can be a great tool to get your website new visitors and new customers.
Sometimes, though, it’s difficult keeping up with your blog. If you’ve been falling behind on blogging you might notice a drop in traffic.
If you want to get that traffic back then it’s time to start blogging.
And we have a few topics and ideas to help get those creative juices flowing.
1. 10 Best Restaurants In (Your Town)
Some of the best blog posts are also the easiest to write.
How may times do your guests ask you where the best restaurants are in town?
This question and others like it are great blog post material. Simply turn your answer into a blog post and you’ll have an online resource for potential customers.
You can bet that if people are asking you in person that many more are asking online.
2. 10 Best Attractions In (Your Town)
Again, a very common question asked by visitors. They’re looking for food and they’re looking for entertainment. You being the resident likely know a few good spots for the guest to check out.
3. 10 Things To Bring On Your Trip To (Your Town)
People come for vacations and for business.
Some know everything they should pack, but others have questions about what to bring and how to prepare. Use your knowledge to help those people out by creating this post.
4. 10 Secret Ways To Save Money While Visiting (Your Town)
Visitors often get trapped paying full price for various things while on vacation.
You can come across as a valuable contact if you help your potential customers save money while visiting your town. Give them your insider advice and they’ll likely repay you by choosing your residence when they visit.
An example might be something as simple as:
Visiting our town? You can get a great steak at the Yacht Club and I do recommend it, but you can get a steak that’s just as good at Joe’s Bar for a third of the price.
5. 10 Mistakes People Make When Visiting (Your Town)
You see all kinds of people come and go. You probably notice that some people make the same mistakes over and over.
Maybe they don’t visit a must-see place or maybe they spend too much money somewhere.
People don’t like making mistakes and you’ll really help them out by writing this post.
6. How To Plan Your Entire Trip To (Your Town)
Show people how to do something and they’ll appreciate the help.
You can go big by helping people plan their entire trip to your town. You’re the expert on the subject so share some of that knowledge. You’ll earn trust and that leads to sales especially in the hotel industry.
7. How To Fit Everything In Your Suitcase For Your Next Trip
You can plan entire trips or you can simply figure out how to pack a suitcase.
You probably see thousands of people each year come through with suitcases. You likely picked up on some tips over the years.
Share those tips in a blog post and people will find it because everyone wants to figure out the best way to pack their suitcase when leaving on a trip.
8. An Interview With (Business Owner) In (Your Town)
Call up one of your friends in your town that owns a business and ask them a few questions. Publish the interview on your blog. It can provide great insight into the town and services for your readers.
And both of you can share the post on social media giving your website double the audience.
9. Treasure Hunt: A Fun Little Trek For An Evening In (Your Town)
We just talked about doing this as a regular thing on your website, but you can do it with a blog post too. Fun things like this get talked about and shared.
10. 101 Amazing Photos And Images From (Your Town)
This type of post takes some time to put together, but it can really do well in the long run for your blog. People are always looking for interesting images and you can provide them with this type of post.
You can take your own photos. You can ask friends and colleagues if you can share theirs.
Or you could use some from Flickr Creative Commons (with attribution).
11. 10 Exciting Things Happening This Year In (Your Town)
People are always wondering what new things are happening. You can provide an update on your town with a blog post.
You could even ask other business owners to get an even bigger perspective. And once the post is live ask them to share the post with their social media followers.
You’ll get even more traffic to your site that way.
Conclusion
There are lots of different topics and ideas for blog posts.
Try the ones above and repeat the ones that work the best.
And keep experimenting with your own formulas. You never know what will work so always keep trying new things that will excite your audience.
